Ryan Shipp
AMGA Single Pitch Instructor
City: Camp Hill
Province: PA
Bio: Ryan Shipp is from Harrisburg, PA and discovered climbing in 2001 at the age of 21. The first place he climbed was at Mount Gretna, PA's boulders and the following weekend was spent at the Gunks, NY. From those first days out climbing, the sport has been one of the main driving forces in his life. Shipp, as his friends refer to him, has been instructing and guiding for 20 years. He started instructing at climbing gyms, then moved into facilitating adventure travel summer camps in the Pacific Northwest US, worked as an adventure education coordinator for a private school in PA for over 15 years, and has guided for many schools, colleges, and universities in the Eastern US. He has a broad amount of experience guiding all ages in many environments while doing different mountain sports, but climbing is usually his first choice and specialty. Shipp has developed programming and provided staff trainings for several businesses in previous roles. In 2015, he co-founded South Central Pennsylvania Climbers which is a non-profit volunteer powered local climbing advocacy group. In 2021, he was awarded an Access Fund Climbing Advocate Award for his volunteer efforts. He is the author of the Governor Stable Bouldering Guide and is currently working on a new guidebook for the South Mountain Climbing areas in PA. In late 2021, Shipp pursued a dream of having his own business and founded Levitation Climbing. Through this outlet, he strives to provide incredible experiences for everyone through the sport of climbing. Please reach out if you'd like private instruction, group instruction, staff trainings, AMGA Climbing Wall Instructor Certification Courses, AMGA Single Pitch Instructor Certification Courses, Multi-Pitch guiding, and so much more.
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- AMGA Single Pitch Instructor
- AMGA Multi-Pitch Instructor
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AMGA: American Mountain Guides Association
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